Linksys WPC11 manual

Instant Wireless ® Series User Guide Wireless-B Notebook Adapter Use this Guide to install: WPC11[...]

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T able of Contents C hapter 1: Introduction 1 The W ireless-B Notebook Adapter 1 F eatures 1 Chapter 2: Planning Y our Wireless Network 2 Netw ork T opolo gy 2 Ad-Hoc versus Infrastructure Mode 2 Chapter 3: Getting to Know the Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 4 The Adapter’ s LEDs 4 Chapter 4: Using the Setup Wizard to Configure Windows 98SE, Me, and [...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 2 Instant Wireless ® Series Chapter 2: Planning Y our Wireless Network A wireless local area netw ork (WLAN) is exactly lik e a regular local area net- w ork (LAN), except that each computer in the WLAN uses a wireless device to connect to the netw ork. Computers in a WLAN share the same frequenc y channel and SSID , wh[...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 4 Chapter 3: Getting to Know the Wireless-B Notebook Adapter The Adapter has tw o LEDs to let you kno w how the card is functioning. Here are a description of those LEDs: Powe r Gr een . The P ow er LED lights up when the PC Card is po w- ered on. Link Gr een . The Link LED lights up and sta ys solid when the Adapter is [...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 6 Instant Wireless ® Series 5 1. T o install the PC Card , click the Install button on the W elcome screen, Figure 4-1. Click User Guide to vie w the User Guide or click Exit to exit the Setup W izard. 2. After reading the License Agreement on the following screen, sho wn in Figure 4-2, click the Ne xt button to continu[...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 8 5. The next screen, sho wn in Figure 4-5, will ask y ou to revie w your settings before it starts to copy f iles. Click the Next button to sa ve these settings, or click the Back button to change any settings. 6. After the f iles ha ve been successfull y copied , the screen in Figure 4-6 will appear . Click the Exit bu[...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter Chapter 6: Driver Installation and Configuration for Windows XP After inserting it into your notebook, you will install the dri ver and conf igure the Adapter . 1. W indows XP will automaticall y detect the PC Card. Insert the Setup CD- R OM into the CD-ROM dri ve. From the screen sho wn in Figure 6-1, click the radio bu[...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 12 2. The follo wing screen, shown in F igure 6-2, mentions W indo ws XP com- patibility . The Adapter has been tested and is compatible with W indows XP . Click the Continue An ywa y but- ton to contin- ue. 3. When W indows has f inished installing the driv er , click the Finish button on the screen that appears (sho wn[...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 14 Chapter 7: Using the WLAN Monitor for Windows 98SE, Me , and 2000 Use the WLAN Monitor to check the link infor mation, search for a vailab le wireless netw orks, or create prof iles that hold different conf iguration settings. After installing the Adapter , its WLAN Monitor icon will appear in y our sys- tem tra y . D[...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 16 The Link Information screen, sho wn in Figure 7-3, displa ys signal strength and link quality information about the cur rent connection and pro vides a button to click for additional status information. Ad-Hoc Mode or Infrastructur e Mode - The screen indicates whether the Adapter is cur rently w orking in ad-hoc or i[...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter In the WEP drop-do wn box, select the type of WEP encryption used by the wireless netw ork: 64-bit/10 hex.characters , or 128-bit/26 he x.characters WEP . If the wireless netw ork uses a passphrase, enter the passphrase in the P assphr ase f ield. If the wireless netw ork uses a WEP ke y , enter the WEP ke y in the Ke y [...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 20 19 Import - Click the Import button to impor t a prof ile that has been sa ved in another location. Select the appropriate f ile, in the screen that appears (F igure 7-8), and click the Open button. Export - T o sa ve the prof ile(s) in a different location, click the Export button. Direct W indows to the appropriate [...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 2. The Choose a wireless mode screen (F igure 7-12) shows a choice of tw o wireless modes. Click the Infrastructur e Mode radio button if you w ant your wireless computers to communicate with computers on y our wired netw ork via a wireless access point. Click the Ad-Hoc Mode radio button if you w ant multiple wireless c[...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 24 3. The W ir eless Settings screen, sho wn in Figure 7-13, will appear . If you chose Infrastructure Mode, go to Step 4 now . If you chose Ad-Hoc Mode, select the cor rect operating channel for your netw ork from the Channel drop-do wn menu. Click the Next button, and go to Step 4 . Click the Back button to change an y[...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 26 5. The Security Settings screen, sho wn in Figure 7-15, will appear . Enable or disable W ired Equi valent Pri vac y (WEP) encryption for your wireless net- w ork. If you enable WEP , enter a Passphrase or WEP k ey . Click the Next button to continue or the Back button to return to the previous screen. WEP (Disabled/6[...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 28 27 If the Adapter does not function after attempting the abo ve steps, remo ve the card and do the follo wing: • Uninstall the driv er software from y our PC. • Restart your PC and repeat the hardware and softw are installation as specif ied in this User Guide. 3. I cannot communicate with the other computers link[...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 30 29 What is ISM band? The FCC and their counter parts outside of the U .S. ha ve set aside bandwidth for unlicensed use in the ISM (Industrial, Scientif ic and Medical) band. Spectrum in the vicinity of 2.4 GHz, in par ticular , is being made a vailable w orldwide. This presents a truly re volutionary opportunity to pl[...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 32 31 Appendix B: Glossar y 802.11b - One of the IEEE standards for wireless netw orking hardware. Products that adhere to a specif ic IEEE standard will w ork with each other , ev en if they are manufactured by dif ferent companies. The 802.11b standard specif ies a maximum data transfer rate of 11Mbps, an operating fre[...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 34 33 Driv er - A workstation or server softw are module that provides an interface betw een a network interface card and the upper -la yer protocol softw are r unning in the computer; it is designed for a specif ic NIC, and is installed during the initial installation of a netw ork-compatible client or server operating [...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 36 35 IRQ ( I nter rupt R e Q uest) - A hardware interr upt on a PC. There are 16 IRQ lines used to signal the CPU that a peripheral ev ent has star ted or ter minated. ISM band - The FCC and their counter par ts outside of the U .S. ha ve set aside bandwidth for unlicensed use in the ISM (Industrial, Scientif ic and Med[...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter Spr ead Spectrum - Spread Spectrum technology is a wideband radio frequen- cy technique de veloped by the military for use in reliable, secure, mission-crit- ical communications systems. It is designed to trade off bandwidth ef f iciency for reliability , integrity , and security . In other words, more bandwidth is con- [...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 40 phone (DSL) or cable systems, or through leased lines or satellites. In its most basic def inition, the Internet could be considered a W AN. WEP ( W ired E quiv alent P riv acy) - A data priv acy mechanism based on a 64- bit or 128-bit shared key algorithm, as described in the IEEE 802.11 standard. WLAN ( W ireless L [...]

Wireless-B Notebook Adapter 42 41 Appendix E: Contact Information F or help with the installation or operation of the W ireless-G Notebook Adapter , contact Linksys T echnical Support at one of the phone numbers or Inter net addresses belo w . Sales Information 800-546-5797 (LINKSYS) T echnical Support 800-326-7114 RMA (Return Mer chandise A uthori[...]

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